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Default Measure without tape measure.

On Sep 14, 6:22 pm, Nova wrote:
Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
"J T" wrote in message
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3. Replace burnout lights on a vehicle.


That may be one of the toughest on any list, the way cars are designed
today. Depending on the light, it may take an hour or more to remove all
the panels and covers to get to the bulb.


To replace a rear tail light on the company Silverado pickup I drive you
have to either remove the "Fibre Body" cap/box or chop a hole in it to
get to the lens cover screws. See:

http://www.brandfxbody.com/fibrebody/inserts.htm

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Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA


Reminds me of the vehicle from the 70's where you had to tilt the
engine up to remove one of the sparkplugs. This was back when tune-ups
were a common preventative maintainence. A typical case of the design
engineers not getting the maintenance folks involved earlier enough.
No one asked "Hey, guys, if we build it like this, can you fix it when
it breaks?"

It took some backyard mechanic to figure out that if you drilled a
large hole in the wheel well, you could get to the spark plug,
Mechanics would use a hole saw, then install a sheet metal plug to
seal the access hole.